That’s the lesson to be learnt from a challenging new exhibition at Ductac, celebrating the legacy of disco forefather Giorgio Moroder.

Legend holds that — despite being best known as the producer and composer behind hits by Donna Summer, David Bowie and Blondie — the Italian mastermind was once offered a commission as an architect.

The project? A giant pyramid, set to tower over the Dubai skyline.

A story that sounds too good to be true, when Moroder found fresh fame last year alongside Daft Punk, the UAE-based artist Simon Coates decided to do some digging.

Only referred to fleetingly in interviews, Coates reached out to Moroder’s friends and collaborators to find out more. Pete Bellotte fleshed out the story in a friendly email, explaining how his former production partner spent two years on the axed project.

That email forms one of centrepieces of Coates new exhibition, Giorgio’s Moroder’s Pyramid, running at Ductac’s Gallery of Light until October 25.

Giorgio’s Moroder’s Pyramid

Walking into the exhibition viewers are immediately struck by a sensory wham-bam of light, sound, and space.

The point of it all is not just to explore Moroder’s legacy, but the very concept of an urban myth. The idea that a fact is more valuable if we, or others, are not certain it’s true.

“There’s a special kind of absurdity that urban tales possess that transmutes them when we know that the myth is actually real,” writes Coates.

“It is as much the teller as the listener who benefits from such a story as Moroder and the pyramid, because the listener will always, always doubt the veracity until proof is producers.”

An edgy, forward-thinking, conceptual exhibition of the kind you will rarely encounter in the UAE, for anyone with even just a passing interest in music, art or architecture, Giorgio Moroder’s Pyramid is well worthy of your time.

• Giorgio’s Moroder’s Pyramid, is at Ductac’s Gallery of Light, Mall of the Emirates in Dubai until October 25. Visit www.ductac.org